Outside Reading Post #15

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer p. 1-180

Since I finished Twilight, I decided to start the second book of the series, New Moon. So far I have read through chapter eight. The book starts out with Bella's birthday. She's turning 18, and Edward and his family invited her over to celebrate. While she is their, she gets a paper cut opening one of her gifts, and Jasper pounces on her smashes her into a window. Bella is okay, and luckily Dr. Cullen helps her, and gets all of the glass shards out of her arm. A couple weeks later Edward takes Bella into the forest and tells her that he and his family are leaving Forks. Edward said that this is whats best for Bella, and it will be like he never existed. Edward is then gone in an instant and Bella is a complete mess. She wanders into the forest after Edward, as if he would be their, but of course he's not. The book then fast forwards 4 months. Bella has just been moping around, almost in a numb stage. She has nightmares every night - not one night has passed where she hasn't had one. Bella hasn't gone out with her friends since Edward left either, and she hasn't talked to any of them. Bella's dad get's really mad at Bella because she never does anything socially anymore. Bella then decided to go to a movie with Jessica, but it didn't go that well. The next day when Bella was driving around town she saw two motorcycles at the curb of one house with a free sign next to them. She decided to take them, knowing they didn't work. She then took them to Jacob Black's house to see if he could fix them up, because he loves that kind of stuff. Bella now goes over to his house everyday, and spends time with Jacob. Her mood has increased dramatically, and Charlie is very pleased and doesn't mind it at all, along with Billy. Although Charlie disapproves of motorcycles, so Bella has to be careful of what she says. Jacob promised her riding lessons in exchange for one motorcycle.